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What is a Hydrocarbon? A Hydrocarbon is a compound only containing Hydrogen and Carbon They can have single and double bonds, meaning they can be saturated or unsaturated. They have a variety of chain lengths Varied shapes Many are flexible and can move whilst still having fixed van der Waals, Covalent and Hydrogen bonds.…read more

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What is an Alkane? An Alkane is the simplest form of a hydrocarbon. Each Carbon atom has 4 bonded pairs. They have single bonds, therefore are saturated. They are insoluble in water Have a variety of chain lengths Rotate and bend easily Have the general formula CnH2n+2 As the molecules get longer the more energy it takes to remove the inter/intramolecular forces holding the atoms together (either van der waals, covalent or hydrogen) therefore boiling point increases. Release large amounts of energy.…read more

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What is crude oil? Crude oil is a mixture of long and short-chain hydrocarbons It if a non-renewable fossil fuel Crude oil , once in shorter chains can be condensed into Petrol, Kerosene, gas oil and many more. we use shorter chain hydrocarbons in everyday life, This means that we have to find a way to shorten or separate the hydrocarbons, this is done by: Cracking Fractional Distillation…read more

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Cracking This involves breaking the C-C bonds in the Hydrocarbon. The long, heavy hydrocarbons are passed over a catalyst and a very high temperature, this breaks the bonds forming smaller alkenes and Alkanes.…read more

Slides in this set

Slide 1

Slide 2

What is a Hydrocarbon? A Hydrocarbon is a compound only containing Hydrogen and Carbon They can have single and double bonds, meaning they can be saturated or unsaturated. They have a variety of chain lengths Varied shapes Many are flexible and can move whilst still having fixed van der Waals, Covalent and Hydrogen bonds.…read more

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What is an Alkane? An Alkane is the simplest form of a hydrocarbon. Each Carbon atom has 4 bonded pairs. They have single bonds, therefore are saturated. They are insoluble in water Have a variety of chain lengths Rotate and bend easily Have the general formula CnH2n+2 As the molecules get longer the more energy it takes to remove the inter/intramolecular forces holding the atoms together (either van der waals, covalent or hydrogen) therefore boiling point increases. Release large amounts of energy.…read more

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What is crude oil? Crude oil is a mixture of long and short-chain hydrocarbons It if a non-renewable fossil fuel Crude oil , once in shorter chains can be condensed into Petrol, Kerosene, gas oil and many more. we use shorter chain hydrocarbons in everyday life, This means that we have to find a way to shorten or separate the hydrocarbons, this is done by: Cracking Fractional Distillation…read more

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Cracking This involves breaking the C-C bonds in the Hydrocarbon. The long, heavy hydrocarbons are passed over a catalyst and a very high temperature, this breaks the bonds forming smaller alkenes and Alkanes.…read more